May 3, 1919

Minsk

Provincial Military Committee

Copy to the Provincial Committee of Bolsheviks

The aviation observer pilot of the 38th Air Squadron, Fyodor Aleksandrovich Armand, is personally known to me and deserves confidence, although he is a former officer and not a communist.

I request that comrade Red Army soldiers and commissars not suspect him. Telegraph confirmation of the transmission of this telegram of mine to the appropriate military unit.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Defence Lenin

First published in 1933

in Lenin Collection XXIV

Printed from the manuscript